The incredible life story of a Soviet soldier who was captured by the Nazis during WWII. His daughter Sana searches the past to understand her silent father. As she accompanies Sana in her journey, the filmmaker excavates film archives, to find traces of those millions of Soviet soldiers, who fel...

'Steel Life' is a film journey about the Central Peruvian Railway during the week of Peru’s most important national holiday, Independence Day, July 28th. The train goes through steep gradients, carrying minerals from Cerro de Pasco, at 4380m altitude, one of the highest cities in the world, to th...

For 18 years I have been filming Pénélope, a young adult with autism. One day I opened the cupboard that contained DV tapes and Super 8 reels. It almost popped my eyes out. We had to bring all these images together.

Pénélope mon amour traces the journey of a mother and her daughter through the y...

Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. / Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone call that her Grandma, who lives far away, is in a critica...

When her father becomes suddenly paralised, the filmmaker spends four years in between hospitals finding shelter, behind her camera, away from a family tragedy.

Rehabilitation centres, VR experiments, fervent prayers, voice notes, love making and cemeteries are the record of a filmmaker’s journe...

At the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, in the theatre district, you can find Luisita´s Photo Studio. There, thousands of celebrities of show business and Argentinian culture were portrayed since the 60´s for more than thirty years. Artists like the popular singer Atahualpa Yupanqu...

Armenia, a village called Lichk where only women, children and the elderly reside. Men leave for 9 months of the year to work in Russia. In Summer, women cut the grass and store hay for winter. The sun arouses a certain laziness, a sensual relaxation. Autumn, with it’s different shades of red, is...

After years of separation, filmmaker Karima Saïdi renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, now suffering from Alzheimer's. From Brussels to Tangiers, the odyssey of a family marked by exile is evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.

Dir. Karima Saïdi - ...

Damien Samedi is a hard-working man, a loving son and a caring boyfriend. He’s also been struggling with a drug addiction most of his adult life, counting on his mother’s matter-of-fact, yet unwavering support. Mixing unexpected moments of humour, insight and compassion, their tender mother-son r...

It Takes A Family is a family drama about secrets and repressed memories. Danish film director, Susanne Kovacs, is the grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors. Susanne’s German mother and her Danish Jewish father got married believing that the war was a closed chapter and that their different ba...

Ten years ago, Heloisa received a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of Itaipu, the world’s largest hydroelectric plant, in the late 1970s. The construction of th...

Lady Khadijeh Saqafi was born on 1st March 1914. At the age of 16 she married the clergyman Roohollah Moosavi Khomeini, who would later become Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. This biography of Lady Khadijeh explores her 60 years with the Aya...

Amid the ruins of an abandoned California mercury-mining town, Quicksilver Chronicles follows the daily lives of the outspoken and gifted writer Kate Woods, her brother Kemp, and their close friend Tommy. The three garrulous companions navigate rural isolation on quad-runners, talk astrophysics a...

After my father died, the details of his life get lost in silence. My need to get to know him reveals a story marked by sexuality and political activism.

Jaime recorded everything, even his own death. He passed on more than one hundred hours of home videos to me, his daughter, and many uncertain...

Mata Ne is about a woman tracing her roots. She travels, together with her mother, to her second home in Japan. It is about them visiting the almost one hundred years old grandmother on the remote island of Okinawa. This reunion feels like a farewell at the same time, somewhere in between being h...

A story of abandonment and discovery, of silence and of sharing, of how fate has shaped the lives of three women.

One day, six-year-old Shelly followed her classmate Sian home from school. They grew up like sisters. Thirty years later Shelly discovers that she has a biological sister named Lind...

I started filming my grandparents in 2007. I was fifteen years old. I really loved my grandfather a lot but as the years went by, I turned my camera more and more towards my grandmother who was suffering from a disturbing illness. Alzheimer’s. I filmed a fraction of their lives, as it happens muc...

An assured, emotionally rich film about the lies a family tells to keep their patriarch happy. After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; but no one has dared to tell the bedridden nonagenarian Antoine, lest his heart crack. A simple solution, though ev...

Macias had 17 children and created a forest in a mountain. It was his wish that the urn with his remains was buried under a little cedar tree, so that when it grows, the roots would embrace the urn. This film depicts and accompanies his youngest children in their visits to the small tree.

Dir. M...

In a faraway village called birha, missing people, mothers and tired lovers yearn to see beyond the mist. They meet each other with impenetrable silences and endless mourning. They curse the moon for witnessing their insomnia. birha situates itself in a season of waiting, where only a loud screec...

Adopted from Iran by a Dutch couple when she was 16 months old Farideh, now 40 and living in Amsterdam, sets out to find her biological parents and travel to Iran for the first time.

Dir. Azade Mousavi, Korosh Ataei - 88min - 2018 - Iran - Language: Farsi - Subtitles: English.

"Shot with a gent...

When my brother joined the Legionaries of Christ after finishing school, he disappeared from our lives. We can only visit him once a year. His superiors are even allowed to read the letters we send him. I hate them. When we were kids, we went to the summer camps of the order. But the Legionaries ...

Roots in the ground, a closed door. A flashlight goes off, I keep
walking. Who is who in this game of silences? The absence of words
does not matter. Narrative will find its way to emerge.

This is no longer just my story. Images opened to be inhabited.

A shelf full of books, an unmade bed. The ...

Camille became a peasant, as they say of someone that lives off the land. She chose the Creuse region, a rough and supple land, laborious yet luminous, but experiences a growing rejection of the agricultural standards that govern her production. Raising her three children, caring for her animals ...